google. google did not come out until 1999. there was no e-mail, cell phones, stuff like that. if you're going to tweet and facebook, do it with purpose and with a cause. thank you. i will make sure i give you my information. >> this will be a follow-up to that question. each time i have read or heard about a person like yourself being found innocent or being exonerated, it seems that there was an extraordinarily sloppy job done on the police and prosecutors' side of investigating and making any real effort to determine what happened. now, i appreciate the pressure that was brought on assistant prosecutors or district attorneys, depending on where you are from, to achieve a conviction. from your vantage point, do you have any suggestions as to change that could be made on the prosecutors' side and perhaps on the police side to see that matters like yours are, in fact, properly investigated? mr. adams: thank you for your question. that is a great question. i have been giving this some thought. the relationship between the police and a prosecutor should not be as close as they are. they should not be able to work hand in hand. prosecutors should not be able to become investigators and go back to a prosecutor. you should not be able to go into a room and question a suspect, as we have seen so many times with prosecutors. you should not tell a police officer how to question a suspect. we have created a criminal justice system and a system in itself that picks sides against one another. and i don't care if it is a spitball contest, whatever contest it is, you do not care about anything besides winning. when you do that, justice is robbed. my suggestion would be a -- we need to have a separate entity between the police and prosecutors, an entity where you do not have to know the name of a person to find out if there is enough evidence of guilt. you do not need to know the color of the person to find out if there is evidence of guilt. you do not need those things. there should be a room with three open-minded people who would get evidence, look at evidence, and decide whether or not it goes to trial. and the prosecutor and the police should not be able to hand jive that evidence into making it fit wherever they want it to fit. it should not be that way. in the end if you get out, if , you are wrongfully convicted, it is a thing called immunity. you cannot even sue the prosecutors and police unless you catch them doing something egregious, meaning dropping the murder weapon at your house. how do you do that? most of the people being wrongfully convicted, they have been there for years, before technology was out. now science is advancing, with dna an all types of stuff. to get people out. but when you get out, you cannot , even punish the people who did that to you. many of them that were prosecutors they are captains of , the force. it is about winning, not about justice. it is just not. you can see i am passionate about that. that is mind-boggling. thank you all. [applause] mr. adams: thank you, though. >> can you comment on the wildly popular "serial" podcast? sort of a similar situation where the lawyer did not do her job. is that going to help the innocence project? mr. adams: i was in prison with steven avery in wisconsin. this show is about a case from wisconsin. i did not know him personally. in prison, you bounce around from prison to prison. i was in the same system with steven avery. i do not know enough about the case to venture into guilt or innocence or anything like that, but i know this -- i cannot even go and get my own niece or nephew out of school. i am their uncle. how on earth how can the police get a kid out of school, question them for hours, take them back to school, and later use that evidence to charge him and his uncle with a crime? if we want to preserve the criminal justice system, they should be given a new trial. that is what they should begin, a new trial. if there is enough evidence and you feel they are guilty, there should be enough evidence to find them guilty fairly without evidence that was manufactured by way of intimidation and taking advantage of people, just taking advantage of people. for you that have seen the show "making of a murder," you know in detail what i'm talking about. some evidence, there was a kid who was basically -- he was questioned for hours and hours with no parent and no lawyer in this police department, being questioned by people who question people for a living and have been doing it forever. and they used this evidence to convict him at trial. it's heartbreaking. this kid is in prison right now. i am glad they exposed this through the show. also, there is another point i want to make about the show. that i think it missed. steven avery was wrongfully convicted. he was released after 20 years. dna proved he did not commit this rape and murder or something like that. i think it was a rape. so he was released from prison. the crime he is in jail for now happened a year after his release. he is released from prison with nothing and he is staying on an auto body salvage yard, basically a junkyard, in a trailer, surrounded by nothing but vacant, torn-down cars. isolated. reminiscent of what? a prison. you are also isolated in the prison. he was not given mental health care. no mental health evaluation. no screening, no nothing. just, our bad. you did not commit the crime. he is released into these conditions of god knows what, a trailer yard, living by himself. now he is in prison for murder. that should be a bigger topic in itself. i do not know the evidence in the case, but i know he was released. without anyone talking to him. after 20 years of anything, anything, whether it is marriage or whatever it is, you might need to talk to someone from time to time. [laughter] he is released from prison, and it is like nothing. that case is just mind-boggling. thank you for your question. [applause] mr. adams: thank you again for having me out, man. >> here is a look at our primetime schedule. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, a preview of some of the major congressional issues. the house and senate will debate when they return from summer recess. book tv.2, it is and on c-span3, american history tv with events and programs on world war i. weekend, bookday tv brings you three days of nonfiction books and authors. here are some featured programs. saturday night at 10:00, afterwards, new america foundation's rosa parks looks at the changes in the u.s. military's approach to fighting wars as well as its role in ongoing conflict. miss brooks is interviewed by kathleen hicks, former deputy undersecretary of defense for policy. congress is not going to wake up one morning and say -- let us triple the budget. but if that is not going to happen, if the military is going to continue to be asked to take on this wide range of tasks, then let us make sure the military is good at them. live sunday, in depth and with mr. prager. still the best hope. and the 10 commandments. join in the conversation with your phone calls and tweets from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. and kate andersen brower will discuss the 10 first ladies. the grace and power of america's modern first lady. she speaks at policy and prose bookstore here in washington, d.c. and monday, or a roach on the effective as an safety of the u.s. military, elaine, on why the public has lost faith in their leaders, and gene edward smith. and senator trent lott and jon presidentialabout politics. go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. campaign 2016, c-span continues on the road to the white house. >> i will be a president for democrats, republicans, and independence. >> we will win or education. we will win. ahead, live coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates on c-span. the c-span radio apple, and c-span.org. the first26 is presidential debate. live, from hofstra university. on tuesday, october 4, vice presidential candidate governor mike pence and senator tim kaine debate at longwood university. 9, on sunday, october washington university hosts the second presidential debate leading up to the third and final debate between hillary clinton and donald trump taking place at the university of nevada, las vegas. live coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates on c-span. listen live for free on the c-span radio apple or watch live anytime on-demand at c-span.org. earlier today, vice president joe biden was campaigning for hillary clinton in warren, ohio. it was the first of two stops he made in support of mrs. clinton in the buckeye state. this is 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the governor and vice president joe biden. [applause] let us hear it for the vice president. [applause] >> it is wonderful to welcome the vice president back to biden country. the mahoney valley. it is really great to have the vice president with us. a man who i believe understands the heart and soul of the mahoney valley. of ohio. and of america. better than anyone else i know, this man knows us. he knows ohio. and he knows america. and we are so pleased and proud to have him here. he is here to support hillary clinton or president. and he is here to support me for united states senate. [applause] you know, i am running for this senate seat because i am from working people. that is who i came from. that is who i care about. and that is who i will fight for in the senate. i am running against the guy named rob portman. using theizes me for rainy day fund and my brothers and sisters, we remember it was not only bringing, it was boring. and we were dealing -- it was pouring. we were dealing with an economy not of our own making, but as a result of wall street but as a result -- and as a result from the bush administration. i protected education. i protected local governments. and i protected firefighters and police officers. know, i want to ask you a question. what kind of twisted logic would cause rob portman to be so ashamed of donald trump that he would not even stand on a platform with him but yet he believes that he should be the president of the united states of america? you know what that says to me? is putting hisn party above his country. this man donald trump is unfit to be the president. and i believe rob portman understands that. but you know, there are a lot of differences between senator portman and myself. let us just take the auto rescue. we are in the mahoney valley. cruisein the home of the -- are we not? and when the auto industry was on its knees, the vice president and our president took strong actions and they saved this vital industry and what was rob portman saying at the time? he said it was a lousy deal for ohio. can you imagine? a senator from ohio causing the -- calling the saving of the auto industry a lousy deal. now, let me tell you what happened after the industry was saved. if you months after the industry was saved, i had the privilege of riding in the first chevy cruz that came off the assembly line. [applause] it was a beautiful red one. and my wife went out and bought one just like it. so, what about college affordability? a lot of young people here today. rob portman voted to cut millions of dollars out of pell grants and he has opposed allowing our students with great debt, mr. vice president, he has opposed allowing them to refinance their debt at a lower interest rate. what about equal pay for equal work? how many women do we have in this crowd? [applause] voted five times against a equity for women. he is opposed to roe v wade. he believes that an employer should tell a woman whether or not her insurance should provide her with contraceptive coverage. that is the record with women. what about retirement security? oh, we love social security and medicare, don't we? we really do. let me tell you, rob portman strived to privatize social turnity and he voted to toward medicare into a voucher program. and then there is the supreme court. you know, the president's constitutional responsibility, when there is a vacancy on the supreme court, to put forth a qualified nominee and the president has done that. and then the constitutional responsibility of senators is to grant that nominee hearings and a vote. and rob portman has taken his leadership from mitch mcconnell and they have refused to grant judge garland even a hearing. do your job, rob. the senate has a responsibility. iselieve rob portman neglecting his constitutional responsibility. and he ought to be a ashamed of himself and nearly every major newspaper in ohio has said the same thing. [applause] now, i am finished talking about myself. i want to talk about this wonderful man sitting behind me. biden, joe biden represents the heart and the soul of america. we love you joe, we do. and we especially love you here in the mahoney valley. and we love you because of your ofues, we love you because what you have done with your life. we love you because you understand what america is feeling. and too many americans are feeling left out and left behind. messagebiden has the that america needs to hear. and it is my privilege to introduce to you my friend, our friend, the vice president of the united states, joe biden. [applause] biden: thank you very much. it is good to be back in the valley. now, i and serious. i come from the lackawanna valley in northeastern pennsylvania. and made of the same stuff, man. if you knew where i came from, you would think you were home. i mean it. look folks, i have campaigned over the years for a lot of people. there is no one that i admired more than ted strickland. ted and i have gone -- no, i really mean this. we have gone up and down and across the state in two campaigns right i was here last campaign, 23 days. he probably wanted me to get out. [laughter] but it matters because the people i trust most in life and in politics are the people, who the ideas that they care about guts in their got\/ -- first, and then it goes to their heart and then it is articulated through their head. those are the ones i trust. the people who arrive at a conclusion as an intellectual exercise -- they are good people but when things get really tough, they are the people who sometimes crack. but the guys and women who feel gut, they are the people that i trust. and timmy, you are in the same category, buddy. i know about irish and italians. i am irish and i married an italian. is sicilian besides. i don't screw around. i must tell you that. i listen to her. but all kidding aside, tim, you are a standup guy. tim touched on something i will speak briefly on today. my biggest problem with donald trump is not his cockamamie policies, it is the way he treats people. i mean it sincerely. think about growing up. in your house. at your kitchen table. if you ever talked about people like he does, i am not joking. i really genuinely mean this. , youu ever sat there and know, talked about how cool it was that john down the street got fired. you are fired. if phrase he has made famous. you are fired. -- you may have come from a household where you were fired, and the plant closed down, and they are staring at the ceiling wondering how in god's name i'm going to make it. -- and he means it, american workers make too much money. just think about this. i am being deadly earnest. this is not the campaign speech, man. this is about the character of the person we are talking about electing as president of the united states. know, doug franklin, the mayor is here. thanks for the passport to get into the town. [laughter] but you guys get it. you guys did it. glenn couldt and not be here but i quite frankly like the fact that sherry and glenn johnson are here. i like vice president's better than presidents anyway. [laughter] but all kidding aside, back in 2008 and 2012, i came here to ask for your vote. and i guess i was presumptive enough to ask for your trust. i stood here and ask you -- i promise that if you trust us -- please give us your vote. moreave us your vote but importantly, you invested your trust in as. i came back to say first and foremost, thank you. i mean this sincerely. i know i would not be standing president,as vice and this is not hyperbole, i would not be standing here today without you all. without the american labor movement. i would never as a 29-year-old kid be elected in the corporate state of delaware were it not knowing that i had no chance, the uaw stood up. they represented 10% of the entire workforce in my entire state. there is no uaw left in delaware anymore. they stood up. they took a chance on a kid. they took a chance on someone who said -- i promise you. i get it. say, joe, youd to are labor from your belt buckle to your shoe soul for a simple i am a student of history. that raised in a family was straightforward and honest. the fact of the matter is, american labor, not figuratively but literally, and you kids are not being taught this, these days, literally built the middle class in america. there would be no middle class in america without organized labor. barack and i would not have been voted without you. i hope you know that i've tried to repay your trust. when barack and i were sworn in january 20, the auto industry was on its back. there were literally serious discussions of letting the industry collapse. guys andright-wing chamber of commerce guys, but remember what they were saying about you all? they were saying that american workers were not productive. that you all were lazy. try to remember what this really was. that you could not compete with the japanese. you could not compete with the germans. we were not as smart. we were not as dedicated. we had become lazy. and it was not worth it. asked -- i know i get blamed but i am happy now that i got blamed for being the as ob at the family picnic -- for being the sob at the family that nick for bailing out the auto industry. i was absolutely convinced along with others because of who i knew and how i grew up. we knew the automobile industry was not just an important economic element of the american economy, it was the symbol of who we are. what are we known best for in the world? the american automobile industry. we built it for the world. not just for the united states. how central tood the well-being of our economy the automobile industry was. remember back then what our friends were saying on the other team. i really mean it because nothing has changed. that is why i bothered to remind you about this. the thing i want you to remember brain kicked in and so did the president by the wall street journal and by the republicans and by your opponent. and by the last administration. -- you weren't capable. you weren't capable. of building the best product in the world. you weren't productive. you were over page. remember that article -- remember that argument? how many times did we hear for eight years about how do were overpaid. how many times did we hear the last time around, we will let them go bankrupt. let detroit go bankrupt. ohio, ted pointed out, his opponent said this is a lousy deal for ohio. we have gone down to just about 6 million vehicles a year. go back and look, i wife is a college professor -- google it. check it out. what was the mainstream, center-right press saying? we could never build more than 6 billion cars in america. mainly because you were not competent. your desire to work hard. you had gotten fat and happy. that was the whole story. trus still trumps story -- mp's story. and why bother to invest. do you know who invested most in the recovery of the industry? the uaw. you all contributed the most. you gave the most at the office. as they say. to resurrect this industry. you took a hit to get it back on its feet when management had screwed up the whole process. you are not designing the cars. management designs them. my dad was in the auto industry give me -- just product. i can sell it if you give me product. -- the bottoms line is these same guys they have not changed. about the auto industry, it is about the american worker still. they do not know you. know you then, they don't know you now. they didn't know where i came from. folks, we all come from the same neighbor